dsIDXpress v1.1 [Release]

Hello all, we’re releasing dsIDXpress v1.1 today. Primarily this is to get in a contact form and listing sharing out to you all. There are numerous other tweaks we hope you’ll enjoy, so without further ado, here is the changelog:

Added Contact form to Details page and Buttons in header for calls to action

@Josette first of all this is only available to customers with both dsIDXpress and dsSearchAgent (for obvious reasons) and secondly, this is somewhat experimental, we’re not sure how far we’re going to go with integration, but we thought this was a simple first start. Go here to one of our demo sites: http://www.daniellecordova.com/ in the right-hand column you see the Search widget? There is an “Advanced” link, you can enable that in the Search Widget Editor. That link will take you to an automagically created page with the dsSearchAgent framed in. As a not, I had to add a One-Column (read: no sidebars) “Template” to this site’s WordPress Theme. That’s something fairly “advanced” and not for the faint of heart.

@Jim we’ll consider it. did you notice you can hover over the tiny thumbs to see a slightly larger version? And finally, it would be great if you could drop your ideas off here: community.dsidxpress.com helps keep everyone informed, and possibly gets you more supporters of your ideas 🙂

I did just submit something to the community for support – Thanks for the suggestion….Typically when a user clicks on a property on the Search Results Page – they expect to see the MLS details + Larger photos…with the IDXPress you have the MLS Details but the photos in the photo gallery are smaller…

It would just make more sense to have larger photos so they don’t have to click again to get what they need….

This is just my opinion but it seems that being able to edit the size of the photos to whatever size we want would be great…

I agree with Jim, larger photos on the Property Detail page would be great… is it possible to increase to the same size as photos on Results screen using “showlargerpictures=true”? those pic sizes are good…

Have you guys put any thought into allowing the pluggin to show the description of the property (the remarks that the agent rights about the property)….this is visually more appealing, additionally it could increase our clickthrough on this properties…. A local broker int he area (who gets over 10,000 visitors a day) uses this tactic…visit Beangroup.com and check it out…

Am I the only one that thinks the property address should be shown in the body of each IDX listing page — not just in the title bar? Seems like this would be key for SEO in order to properly optimize for the address. Right at the top of the content body, above the property price: a big H1 that has the property address.